White House won’t say how it is limiting intelligence sharing with Congress
The White House declined to say Thursday how it will be limiting the classified information it shares with Congress, or how it will respond to lawmakers who insist their oversight duties necessitate access to the information.
The comments came shortly before a classified briefing on Iran by Trump administration officials for the Senate, which is now underway after being delayed by several days earlier this week.
“This administration wants to ensure that classified intelligence is not ending up in irresponsible hands, and that people who have the privilege of viewing this top-secret classified information are being responsible with it,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a briefing.
“And unfortunately, clearly, someone who had their hands on this — and it was a very few people, very few number of people in our government who saw this report. … That person was irresponsible with it,” Leavitt added, referring to the early Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that found US strikes on Iran did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months.
“We need to strengthen that process to protect our national security and protect the American public,” Leavitt said.
The Trump administration is planning to limit what it shares with Congress, a senior White House official told CNN on Wednesday, believing that the report came out after it was posted on Monday to CAPNET, a system used for sharing classified intelligence with Congress.
Oh you can be briefed on the lies, the truth is classified.
US and Israel have told Iran to hand over enriched uranium, Israeli defense minister says
The United States and Israel have told Iran it must hand over its enriched uranium, the Israeli defense minister said. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 13, Israel Katz discussed the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities that took place over the weekend.
“It was clear from the beginning that the strike would neutralize the surrounding infrastructure — it wouldn’t eliminate the (nuclear) material itself. Now there is a joint American-Israeli position saying to Iran, ‘You must hand over this material,’” Katz said in the interview, which aired Thursday.
The intention of Israel’s recent attacks on Iran was to “neutralize capabilities,” Katz said. “Today, they have no way to produce a nuclear bomb, because we also destroyed the conversion facility that turns uranium into solid form,” he claimed.
Trump claimed it was destroyed inside the Fardow facility...
Iran says no plans have been set to resume nuclear talks with US
Tehran has no plans to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday.
“No agreement or arrangement has been made to resume negotiations. Neither any promise has been given, nor any discussion has taken place on this matter,” Araghchi told Iran’s state news channel IRINN in a televised interview today.
“We have had a cumbersome experience with the Americans — that they betrayed the negotiations in the middle of the process. This experience will certainly affect our future decisions. But that decision will ultimately be made based on the welfare of the Iranian people, not on emotions, or any superficial or temporary considerations,” he added.
Araghchi dismissed speculation about back-channel talks, emphasizing that internal reviews of Iran’s interests are “a separate issue” from formal negotiations.
How long until Israel starts bombing Iran again...
